Pastiche, Peter Pan, and Donan Coyle
If you want to get a look at the history of fanfic, an incredibly rich place to start is with this archive of Sherlock pastiche, starting in 1888 with a story written by “Donan Coyle.” A particularly famous pastiche was written by J.M. Barrie—yes, the Peter Pan author—titled “My Evening with Sherlock Holmes.” Pastiche is, by many accounts, the start of contemporary fanfic.
